2011 8th Grade Journal 1

      Hurricane Irene did a lot of damage to many homes. Lucky for us, no one in my family had any trouble. The only thing that happened was a little water in the basement of my house. We had running water the whole time and no power outages happened. 

     The worst thing that happened was 2 inches of water in the basement. I had to take a mop at 1 o'clock in the morning and go clean up the water. My parents didn't even help me clean; they just sat upstairs watching the news. I realized that the water wasn't going away, it just kept coming through the cracks in the walls. I had to call my father and tell him that he needs to fix it. He looked and looked until he opened a door and saw that the water didn't go into the water pump. He had to make a hole into the wall to have water flow into the pump instead of the floor, and in no time, everything was fixed.

      I went to bed at 4 in the morning. I used the Hurricane as an excuse to stay up late. Most of the time I was on Facebook and Skype. 

     The hurricane wasn't as bad as I thought and I am very thankful that there was no real problems that would damage the whole house.